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Remember all that hullaballo about the birthplace of the burger? How New Haven, Connecticut, and Athens, Texas, were going back and forth on this? How Josh "Mr. Cutlets" Ozersky wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times about this? Well, New Haven just fired a retaliatory nah-nah-boo-boo strike:

Nobody disputes that Louis' has served its hamburgers longer than any other restaurant. The oldest continuously published newspaper in America thereby declares the oldest continuing hamburger joint in America the authentic one. So there.

Hamburger Hooey [Hartford Courant; via Barry Popik. Thanks, Barry!]

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Here's a video we produced over on Serious Eats about Louis' Lunch.